DOORS @ 7:30 / SHOWS @ 8PM, UNLESS POSTED OTHERWISE
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Thu12Dec2019
Ed Pastorini & Bearthoven Dec 12
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Ed Pastorini is a NYC songwriter, composer, pianist, and guitarist best known for his band 101 Crustaceans. He has recorded or performed with Elysian Fields, Beth Orton, Joan As Police Woman, Johnny Society, Najma Akhtar, Church of Betty, Graham Maby, M. Ward, Badly Drawn Boy, and Bruce Springsteen.
He wrote of this performance, “Ed’s gonna probably make a spontaneous mixture depending on his state of mind – using at least piano and voice. This may include songs or song fragments, compositions, standards, popular songs from the 1800’s and unplanned noises. Tempos may move glacially at times – or the whole time, depending on his . . . etc.”
Bearthoven [ \’bâr-toh-vən\ ] is a piano trio creating a new repertoire for a familiar instrumentation by commissioning works from leading young composers. Karl Larson (piano), Pat Swoboda (bass), and Matt Evans (percussion) have combined their individual voices and diverse musical backgrounds, coming together to create a versatile trio focused on frequent and innovative commissioning of up-and-coming composers. Bearthoven is rapidly building a diverse repertoire by challenging composers to apply their own voice to an instrumentation that, while common amongst jazz and pop idioms, is currently foreign in the contemporary classical world.
Formed in 2013, Bearthoven has quickly established themselves as a forerunner in the New York City contemporary music scene. Commissioning over 30 new works in their first six seasons, the trio has created its own diverse repertoire ranging from the driving, post-minimal voices of Michael Gordon, Ken Thomson, and Shelley Washington to the atmospheric and abstracted offerings of Sarah Hennies, Scott Wollschleger, and Anthony Vine. Bearthoven’s commitment to collaboration and innovation has garnered both critical and peer acclaim and has led to featured performances on notable series including the MATA Festival, the Bang On a Can Marathon, the Music/Sound Series at EMPAC, the Princeton Sound Kitchen, and the Ciclo de Conciertos de Música Contemporánea in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The group’s debut album Trios was released on Cantaloupe Music in May of 2017. Their second album, American Dream, features the works of Scott Wollschleger, and was released in February of 2019 on the same label. Bearthoven will perform two of their most recent commissions by Scott Wollschleger and Katherine Balch.